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4. Wood Vetch. Vicia sylvatica, Linn. (Fig. 276.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 79.) 



A handsome usually glabrous species, 

 climbing over shrubs and small trees, 

 sometimes to the length of 6 or 8 feet. 

 Stipules deeply divided at their base. 

 Leaflets fewer and broader than in the 

 tufted V, usually 8 or 10 pairs to each 

 leaf, oblong, or the lower ones ovate, 

 obtuse or notched at the top. Flowers 

 considerably longer than in the tufted V, 

 white with bluish streaks, loosely droop- 

 ing in long racemes. Pod glabrous, 

 broad, an inch long, with 4 to 6 seeds. 



In open woods and bushy places, in 

 the hilly, and especially the northern dis- 

 tricts of Europe and Russian Asia, to 

 the Arctic Circle, and in the mountains 

 of southern Europe and central Asia. 

 Not uncommon in Scotland, and occurs 

 in most hilly, wooded districts of England and Ireland. 



Fig. 276. 



Fl. 



5. Upright Vetch. Vicia Orobus, 



{Orobus sylvaticus, Eng. Bot. t, 



A slightly hairy, branching perennial, 

 with a somewhat creeping rootstock ; the 

 stems more erect than in the other 

 Vetches, and the tendrils all reduced to 

 a fine point terminating the leafstalk, or 

 in the upper leaves replaced by a termi- 

 nal leaflet, as in the black Pea, but the 

 plant does not usually dry black, as in 

 that species, and the style is that of the 

 tufted Vetch. Stipules broader than in 

 the last two species, and slightly toothed. 

 Leaflets 8 to 10 pairs to each leaf, nar- 

 row-oblong, with a fine point. Pe- 

 duncles about the length of the leaf, with 

 a close raceme of 6 to 10 rather large 

 flowers of a purplish-white. Pods flat- 

 tened, about an inch long, with 3 or 4 

 seeds, or rarely more. 



DC. (Fig. 277.) 

 518.) 



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